CN1271237A - Terminal, communication system and connection method - Google Patents

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CN1271237A
CN1271237A CN00108893A CN00108893A CN1271237A CN 1271237 A CN1271237 A CN 1271237A CN 00108893 A CN00108893 A CN 00108893A CN 00108893 A CN00108893 A CN 00108893A CN 1271237 A CN1271237 A CN 1271237A
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Abstract

The invention provides tariff information for specific destinations and target terminals on a telecommunications network, to indicate to users the tariff applicable before establishing a connection. The system may also be used in order to provide the elements of information needed to enable calculation of costs for a pre-payment system. For these purposes, the tariff information is coded inside a normalised call control message which is transmitted to establish the connection, and is intended to be received by at least one of the terminals before establishing the connection. The invention is used for radiophone.

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Terminal, telecommunication system and method for attachment
The present invention relates to comprise the communication system of the jockey of the connection that is used for when the calling terminal request, being set up at least one terminal called, described jockey comprises the device that is used to send the standardization call control message, these standardization call control messages have its predetermined calling terminal on the one hand so that its processing of request is confirmed to this calling terminal and be used to set up first to connect, and have its predetermined terminal called on the other hand so that incoming call is notified to this terminal called and is used to set up second connection.
The present invention also relates to comprise the communication terminal of the receiving system that is used for the standardization call control message that the received communication system sends for the connection that is set up to remote terminal.
The present invention relates to the communication means that is used for being set up to the connection of terminal called when the calling terminal request at last, described method comprises the step that sends the standardization call control message, these standardization call control messages have its predetermined calling terminal on the one hand so that its processing of request is confirmed to this calling terminal and be used to set up first to connect, and have its predetermined terminal called on the other hand so that incoming call is notified to this terminal called and is used to set up second connection.
The present invention has many application, is applied to utilize Subscriber Identity Module especially or utilizes the prepaid card operation so that give the user and the mobile radio telephone system of the GSM type of reliable tariff information is provided for the prepayment terminal.In fact, the network operator generally provides different rate according to given time range, and these rate also may frequently be revised, and this makes that the planning of expense is quite complicated concerning the user.On the other hand, in order to simplify the operation of keeping accounts since prepaid card and can be on the terminal level expense of calculation consumption as the function that sends to the tariff information of this terminal by the network operator.Need to upgrade a kind of competing method of this information in this case.
Known method is included in and adopts tariff list and utilization to upgrade these tables termly for all users' of this system the abbreviated message that is called SMS-CB message by Web broadcast in the terminal.
The major defect of the method is: because many resources are used up in the planned transmission of predetermined all users' to system message, so limit the capacity of this network.
In order to correct this shortcoming, the present invention proposes to generate and can be used by the purpose terminal immediately and a kind of very economical method of the tariff information of additional resource in the consumption network not in fact.According to advantage of the present invention, can applicable tariff information be provided for one or various purpose terminal as the function of designation criteria with discrete way.
Therefore, provide a kind of system with the type that defines in opening paragraph, it is characterized in that, this system comprises the code device that is used at least one the described standardization call control message coding tariff information with its at least one predetermined described terminal.In this mode, this system avoids only sending the particular message that supposition comprises tariff information.In fact, this information of coding in the standardization call control message that when always connecting, is sending.Therefore, in useful mode, the transmission of tariff information not on the consumption network any additional resource and the rate that will be effectively applied to this calling immediately notify the user.This information can send to the terminal of this connection of starting or also can send to the terminal that especially receives this information in the situation of terminal called roaming, wherein receive this outside the overlay area of the main user network of terminal called in the situation of terminal called roaming and call out, this is because the latter can find the expense of its own a part of receipt of call of having been kept accounts.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, described code device is used for coming encoded packets to be contained in the described tariff information of described standardized messages with the code element of the type " function information element " described in suggestion GSM04.80, the 3.6th chapter and the appendix A.
Of the present invention these will become apparent and will utilize nonrestrictive example to combine following embodiment with other aspects from following embodiment and set forth.
In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is the figure of expression according to terminal of the present invention and telecommunication system;
Fig. 2 is the parent map of expression according to telephone terminal operation of the present invention; With
Fig. 3 represents according to method of attachment of the present invention.
The exemplary system of the radio subsystem of the GSM type that its figure representative is simplified very much in Fig. 1 is based on the suggestion ETS300 940 of ETSI (European Telecommunication Standard office).Yet the present invention can be applied to allow in other telecommunication systems that connect with circuit-mode between calling party and the callee at least.
The system of Fig. 1 comprises two radio base stations 10 and 11, is used for realizing radio interface between mobile radio telephone network GSM and mobile radio station or terminal 13 and 14.Controller 15 drives radio base stations 10 and 11 and control this radio subsystem.This controller also guarantees to allow to reduce the service set function of Network Transmission expense.In this example, the terminal 13 that is called calling terminal is thought and terminal 14 contacts that are called terminal called.For this reason, terminal 13 sends connection request 16 to network by nearest radio base station 10.Hereinafter will describe according to request linker of the present invention in conjunction with Fig. 3.Under the control of controller 15, radio base station 10 and 11 radio resource allocated and connect 17 between terminal.In case set up radio link, thereby each minute of communicating by letter kept accounts according to the predefined contract option of operator institute of the network that during this connects, utilizes.Usually, the expense of communication is collected to calling terminal.This expense also can be collected or divide according to predetermined being subdivided between the both sides to terminal called.The pre-payment contract that this segmentation can depend on constraint manipulation person's contract, different user's contracts or user have reached with its master network, called number or the like.
Though represent a radio subsystem for simplicity's sake and only in Fig. 1, the different more complicated system by different network operator management of can upgrading is so that connect between terminal remote on two geography.Under specific situation, terminal called can for example be positioned at abroad, is positioned among the overlay area of another system except that he has bought reservation or prepayment service.In this case, with generally to the callee collect corresponding to the callee network and its routine work supplier or master network between the expense of incoming call of the communications portion that is connected.Fig. 1 represents that this connects the simple scenario that two terminals that involved are arranged in same overlay area.Thereby can all collect the expense of this calling to calling terminal 13.
The present invention has two purposes:
The calling terminal that allows to have precharging circuit calculates the expense of calling in reliable mode; With
Allow the user to know the rate that can be applicable to its calling in advance.
For this reason, 10 when receiving connection request 16 in the base station, and controller 15 begins to comprise by relevant radio base station (referring to stand 10 here) makes this call out the transmission of the predetermined message 18 of the predetermined tariff information IT that is billed to calling terminal 13.According to the variation of using the embodiment of the invention of special software device in the network, predetermined message 18 can send to this destination that connects all terminals that involved, and perhaps also can only send to the terminal of will be kept accounts or also can send to any equipment (server) that this information might be used in particular for calculating calling charge.Tariff information to the discrete transmissions of several purpose terminals or destination device provides significant advantage, and with opposite by broadcast the known method that updating message constitutes for all terminals of system in planned mode, this is unlikely to unnecessarily to make network saturated.
Fig. 2 provides the detail view of the topology example of the radio telephone terminal 12 that is suitable for for example utilizing the operation of pre-payment SIM card.This example comprises the transceiver circuitry that is expressed as TX/RX that is coupled to antenna 21 with known manner, is used to send and receive the message from its purpose network.Operation by control section 23 these radiophones of control that comprise microprocessor μ P, volatile memory RAM, programmable storage EEPROM and read only memory ROM.The user interface that the connecting circuit 25 that signal that control section 23 processing are sent and received by transceiver circuitry TX/RX and managing special utilize SIM card forms.In the time of in this card insertion equipment, another printed circuit 26 on connecting circuit 25 block is therewith cooperated together and is included in information in the file of SIM card with permission microprocessor μ P access.More specifically, processor μ P finishes the read operation and the write operation of IMSI (international mobile subscriber identification) file of expression user's identifier in EEPROM and the RAM memory.If it is the number relevant with prepaid card that processor is discerned this IMSI number, then start the operation of pre-payment pattern.If incoherent words then start the standard feature that is suitable for conventional subscriber card.
According to the preferred embodiment that Fig. 3 describes in detail, suppose that the predetermined message that comprises tariff information is the standardized messages that generates automatically during connecting the normal phase of setting up.According to this embodiment, in any case in standardized messages, allow terminal and with the specific coding pattern that the mode to user transparent does not make System and method for according to the present invention ignore message that it comprises or information this tariff information of encoding according to special.In order to give this information for change, this control section 23 comprises decoding device COD, receives these message so that decode this message and send for calculating section CAL by microprocessor and calculate the needed information of calling charge by connector 25 and 26.
Call control program illustrated method of attachment according to a preferred embodiment of the invention when Fig. 3 A and 3B described and send (Fig. 3 A) and receive (Fig. 3 B), and this is applied to the mobile radio system according to suggestion GSM04.80 especially.The benefit of this embodiment is double.In order to send tariff information, except the resource that is used to connect, do not use other resource.And, the reception of this reception of information needed synchronously automatically and the information that sends during normal access phase, this brings and allows the user promptly setting up this in this stage to select so that at last with the attendant advantages of its call delay to more economical time zone before connecting.According to the prior art described in the foreword, in fact this be not used in the reception and the connection request of the simple message of wheel synchronization type SMS-CB, then can not be within the predetermined time and the rate that fully will be applied to its calling reliably notify the user.
In Fig. 3 A and 3B, horizontal arrow is illustrated in output and calls out the exchange of message between the mobile terminal MS and network N ET in the situation of (Fig. 3 A) and incoming call (Fig. 3 B).When sending, comprise the transmission of following message according to the calling-control method of described suggestion:
SETUP (foundation) is used to set up the connection of calling,
CALL PROCEEDING (calling is carried out) is used for response output and calls out,
ALERTING (alarm) is used for the notification call mobile radio station and generates signalling tone,
CONNECT (connection) is used for connecting and calls out,
CONNECT ACKNOWLEDGE (connect and confirm) is used for connecting paying for this reason.
When receiving, comprise the transmission of following message according to the calling-control method of described suggestion:
SETUP is used to set up the connection of calling,
CALL CONFIRMED (call out and confirm) is used to confirm incoming call,
ALERTING is used for the notification call mobile radio station and generates signalling tone,
CONNECT is used for connecting and calls out,
CONNECT ACKNOWLEDGE is used for connecting paying for this reason.
The present invention is used for sending tariff information at one or more call control messages, and redundant information allows to increase. the reliability of the method.Utilize preferred embodiment, the message SETUP that is used for exporting the message ALERTING of calling and is used for incoming call is for example inserted tariff information in suggestion.According to the variation of embodiment, can in the message of the type FACILITY (function) described in suggestion GSM04.80, the 2.3rd chapter, send this information.The shortcoming that this pattern is compared with preference pattern is: it is in the transmission that also requires the particular message of type FACILITY during the access phase except the normal call control messages.
Be used to transmit the message of tariff information regardless of selection to the destination of its selection, will be according to might in this message, providing this information by the correlative code of purpose decoding terminals with function provided by the present invention.The present invention is used for the encode tariff information of this message of the code element of the type " function information element " of suggestion described in GSM04.80, the 3.6th chapter and the appendix A.The use of element " function information element " has the advantage that allows other-end not have the function of ignoring this information.In fact described standard is supposed when the content of unidentified code element " function information element " and is ignored these contents by receiver.
From utilizing example to provide the description and the explanation of method and telecommunication apparatus, the method and telecommunication apparatus can help the budget of its phone spending of user management on the one hand, operate required resource and can help network operator's optimization to keep accounts on the other hand.The present invention provides following advantage especially:
-can specify the purpose terminal of tariff information,
-peak optimizating network resource,
-when needing, terminal sends reliable information to these terminal,
And this is transparent to other-end preferably.
Obviously, various variation of the present invention might be provided and not deviate from scope of the present invention, especially the providing and content of tariff information in the related standards message.More specifically, tariff information can comprise type " rate completely ", " rate of minimizing " the rate used indication or also can comprise the indication in the operation time zone in type " zone 1 ", " zone 2 " etc.

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1, a kind of communication system, comprise the jockey that is used for when the calling terminal request, being established to the connection of at least one terminal called, described jockey comprises the device that is used to send the standardization call control message, these standardization call control messages have its predetermined calling terminal on the one hand so that its processing of request is confirmed to this calling terminal and be used to set up first to connect, and have its predetermined terminal called on the other hand so that incoming call is notified to this terminal called and is used to set up second connect, it is characterized in that: this system comprises the code device of the tariff information of at least one the described standardization call control message with its at least one predetermined described terminal of being used for encoding.
2, the system as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that described code device is used for encoding and has the described tariff information in the message of the message of the type " ALERTING " described in the suggestion GSM 04.80 and/or type " SETUP " of its predetermined calling terminal and/or terminal called respectively.
3, the system as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described code device is used for the code element of the type " function information element " of suggestion described in GSM04.80, the 3.6th chapter and the appendix A interior described tariff information of described standardized messages of encoding.
4, a kind of communication system, comprise the jockey that is used for when the calling terminal request, being established to the connection of at least one terminal called, described jockey comprises the device that is used to send the standardization call control message, these standardization call control messages have its predetermined calling terminal on the one hand, and have its predetermined terminal called on the other hand, it is characterized in that this system comprises the code device of tariff information of the particular criteria message of the type " FACILITY " described in suggestion GSM04.80, the 2.3rd chapter that is used for encoding.
5, a kind of communication terminal, comprise and be used to receive the standardization call control message that sends by communication system, so that be set up to the receiving system of the connection of remote terminal, it is characterized in that this terminal comprises the decoding device of the tariff information that is included in predetermined standardization call control message of being used for decoding.
6, terminal as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, this standardization call control message is the message of the type described in the suggestion GSM04.80 " ALERTING " and the message of type " SETUP ".
7, as the terminal of one of claim 5 or 6, it is characterized in that, with the described tariff information in the code standardized message of code element of the type " function information element " described in suggestion GSM04.80, the 3.6th chapter and the appendix A.
8, a kind of communication terminal, comprise the receiving system that is used to receive the standardization call control message that sends by communication system, it is characterized in that this terminal comprises the decoding device of tariff information of the particular criteria message of the type " FACILITY " described in suggestion GSM04.80, the 2.3rd chapter that is used for decoding.
9, be used for when the calling terminal request, being set up to a kind of communication means of the connection of terminal called, described method comprises the step that sends the standardization call control message, these standardization call control messages have its predetermined calling terminal on the one hand, so that its processing of request is confirmed to this calling terminal and is used to set up first to connect, and have its predetermined terminal called on the other hand, so that incoming call is notified to this terminal called and is used to set up second connection, it is characterized in that the method comprises the coding step of the tariff information of the described standardization call control message with its at least one predetermined described terminal of being used for encoding.
10, be used for a kind of communication means of between at least one calling terminal and terminal called, connecting, described method comprises the step that sends the standardization call control message, it is characterized in that the method comprises being used for encoding to have the coding step at the tariff information of the particular criteria message of the type " FACILITY " described in suggestion GSM04.80, the 2.3rd chapter of its at least one predetermined described terminal.
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